Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

I’ll be like Bob Hope, touring when I’m 100.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I make pop culture.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.